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Dec. 19th, 2022 10:36 pmAsterisk for unfinished, rot13 for spoilers!
Inscryption - My end of 2022 games opinion is that Inscryption is the only game that's allowed gb or svir tnzrf. Very first deckbuilder--this is a card game by people who looooove card games and it rules. Would recommend having a friend who knows things about card games point out all the references also lsdkfjsk
Slay the Spire - Straight shot from Inscryption... I logged like. 200 hours of Slay the Spire between Feb & May and was really certain by March that it was going to be my GOTY... it's NOT but for stupid reasons
Gris - Puzzle-platformer, didn't find it hard, unfortunately didn't find it very uh interesting or fun either
Norco* - Atmospheric point&click in a dying Louisiana town. Got distracted and keep forgetting about it, liked the beginning very much
Citizen Sleeper - Cute! Video-game-ified Blades in the Dark RPG on a crumbling space station. Reads like a dating sim written by and for late season Friends at the Table fans (FOND)... (SELF-BURN?)
Into the Breach: Advanced Edition - GOTY, baby! The new squads are SO fun in really different & exciting ways, all smash hits for me. Love to slam dunk a bug through the surface of the earth! Love to rally a small army of poison spiders. I will note that it's only ranked above Slay the Spire because I'm better at it and I like to feel smart sldfjslkfd
Mother 3* - In... progress....
The Looker - Ideal execution of this concept imo. Enjoyed the jokes, enjoyed the game ending before the jokes stop being funny, REALLY ENJOYED the core premise of "Witness parody game"
Wilmot's Warehouse - Was this fun? Really good for "turn your brain off and focus on Game Experience" but the Game Experience itself was FAIRLY STRESSFUL... played to 200 items which the internet claimed was the end condition, game didn't end, stopped playing. Maybe if you really really need to clean your room you could instead do a half dozen hours of this game to make your whole situation Worse!
Loop Hero - Games should only be one game!! Liked the loop bit, found it pretty hard to reason about the deckbuilder and the basebuilding part was just completely uninteresting to me
Dicey Dungeons - What Loop Hero could've been... one concept (roguelike deck-builder plus cool dice mechanics) with some riffing, solidly executed. Was "pretty fun"
Omori* - Mother 3-alike RPG, quite slow but I am enjoying it. I know Mother 3 is better but I gotta do Omori first because if I don't finish now I never will
The Barnacle Goose Experiment - LOVED this! Free browser-based abiogenesis clicker/factory game--start with a base set of elements (sweat, tears, piss) and combine them to generate life. Really delightful, probably less than a day to finish unless you ner fpnerq bs qlvat va-tnzr naq arire qb vg va juvpu pnfr vg gnxrf... ybatre...
Eidolon* - By the Tenderfoot Tactics folks. Pros: set in western Washington. Low poly. Cons: another fucking map navigation game???
Cult of the Lamb* - Just kind of middling in all respects (why is this also like four games... do I hate base building? Maybe!), drove me back into the arms of
Hades - I am getting good at the bow and spear. I am exploding things! I am going to vanish off the face of the earth for a month or whatever when the sequel drops
Tiny free browser games I played for < 30min:
stgn - A walk in the snow
Please Answer Carefully - 5min horror, fun structural conceit, did wig me out because I am a baby (Small content spoilers: ab whzcfpnerf)
Dice of Los Suenos - Pretty fun! Dice in video games is so big right now
The Grown Up Detective Agency - IF by the Known Unknowns person (ostensibly older audience, still feels pretty YA to me), spunky child detective now grown up and jaded, meets time-travelling younger self. Didn't hate it, didn't love it--felt more obviously like a sequel and I hadn't played the original game.
Inscryption - My end of 2022 games opinion is that Inscryption is the only game that's allowed gb or svir tnzrf. Very first deckbuilder--this is a card game by people who looooove card games and it rules. Would recommend having a friend who knows things about card games point out all the references also lsdkfjsk
Slay the Spire - Straight shot from Inscryption... I logged like. 200 hours of Slay the Spire between Feb & May and was really certain by March that it was going to be my GOTY... it's NOT but for stupid reasons
Gris - Puzzle-platformer, didn't find it hard, unfortunately didn't find it very uh interesting or fun either
Norco* - Atmospheric point&click in a dying Louisiana town. Got distracted and keep forgetting about it, liked the beginning very much
Citizen Sleeper - Cute! Video-game-ified Blades in the Dark RPG on a crumbling space station. Reads like a dating sim written by and for late season Friends at the Table fans (FOND)... (SELF-BURN?)
Into the Breach: Advanced Edition - GOTY, baby! The new squads are SO fun in really different & exciting ways, all smash hits for me. Love to slam dunk a bug through the surface of the earth! Love to rally a small army of poison spiders. I will note that it's only ranked above Slay the Spire because I'm better at it and I like to feel smart sldfjslkfd
Mother 3* - In... progress....
The Looker - Ideal execution of this concept imo. Enjoyed the jokes, enjoyed the game ending before the jokes stop being funny, REALLY ENJOYED the core premise of "Witness parody game"
Wilmot's Warehouse - Was this fun? Really good for "turn your brain off and focus on Game Experience" but the Game Experience itself was FAIRLY STRESSFUL... played to 200 items which the internet claimed was the end condition, game didn't end, stopped playing. Maybe if you really really need to clean your room you could instead do a half dozen hours of this game to make your whole situation Worse!
Loop Hero - Games should only be one game!! Liked the loop bit, found it pretty hard to reason about the deckbuilder and the basebuilding part was just completely uninteresting to me
Dicey Dungeons - What Loop Hero could've been... one concept (roguelike deck-builder plus cool dice mechanics) with some riffing, solidly executed. Was "pretty fun"
Omori* - Mother 3-alike RPG, quite slow but I am enjoying it. I know Mother 3 is better but I gotta do Omori first because if I don't finish now I never will
The Barnacle Goose Experiment - LOVED this! Free browser-based abiogenesis clicker/factory game--start with a base set of elements (sweat, tears, piss) and combine them to generate life. Really delightful, probably less than a day to finish unless you ner fpnerq bs qlvat va-tnzr naq arire qb vg va juvpu pnfr vg gnxrf... ybatre...
Eidolon* - By the Tenderfoot Tactics folks. Pros: set in western Washington. Low poly. Cons: another fucking map navigation game???
Cult of the Lamb* - Just kind of middling in all respects (why is this also like four games... do I hate base building? Maybe!), drove me back into the arms of
Hades - I am getting good at the bow and spear. I am exploding things! I am going to vanish off the face of the earth for a month or whatever when the sequel drops
Tiny free browser games I played for < 30min:
stgn - A walk in the snow
Please Answer Carefully - 5min horror, fun structural conceit, did wig me out because I am a baby (Small content spoilers: ab whzcfpnerf)
Dice of Los Suenos - Pretty fun! Dice in video games is so big right now
The Grown Up Detective Agency - IF by the Known Unknowns person (ostensibly older audience, still feels pretty YA to me), spunky child detective now grown up and jaded, meets time-travelling younger self. Didn't hate it, didn't love it--felt more obviously like a sequel and I hadn't played the original game.
